disorder, n. 1. disorderliness, disarray, displacement, dislocation, disarrangement, disorganization; dishevelment, untidiness, clutter, mess, heap, huddle; hash, hodge-podge, mishmash, jumble, scramble, tangle; mix-up, snafu, Inf foul-up, Sl. ball-up, Brit. Sl. balls-up.
2. confusion, confusedness, muddle, Inf guddle, imbroglio; unsettledness, discomposure, disconcertment, agitation, perturbation, upset; discord, disunion, disquiet, unrest, ferment, upheaval, storm; turmoil, tumult, tumultuousness, turbulence, tempest; breach of peace, public disturbance, disruption, minor uprising, riot; chaos, confusion, anarchy, pandemonium, bedlam, brouhaha, melee, free-for-all, fracas, rumpus; broil, brawl, fray, row, struggle, fight, scuffle, Inf. ruckus; clamor, uproar, hubbub, hullabaloo, din, fuss, excitement, commotion, flurry, Inf. to-do.
3. ailment, malady, complaint, illness, sickness, indisposition, affliction, disease; derangement, mental disorder, neurosis, psychosis, insanity.
-v. 4. missarrange, put out of place, misplace, displace, dislocate, move out of place; throw into disorder, disarray, dishevel, tumble, tousle, Chiefly Scot. Dial, touse; mess or mess up, muss or muss up, ruffle or ruffle up, rumple or rumple up; turn upside down, Inf. turn topsy-turvy, make a shambles of; clutter, litter, scatter or strew objects about.
5. unsettle, discompose, shake or shake up, disconcert, perturb; upset, agitate, distress, trouble; disturb, disrupt; confuse, mix or mix up, shuffle, jumble, scramble; muddle, snafu, fuddle, Brit. Sl. muzz, snarl, tangle, Sl. ball up; bungle, spoil, upset the apple cart, throw a monkey wrench into the works, sabotage, Sl. foul up, Sl. bollix up, Sl. screw up.
6. derange, incapacitate, throw out of gear, indispose; weaken, devitalize, disable, invalidate; enfeeble, debilitate, invalid, sicken.
disorderly, adj. 1. confused, chaotic, all mixed-up, upside down, Inf. topsy-turvy; at sixes and sevens, muddled, jumbled, hugger-mugger, scrambled, tangled; disordered, out of order, out of place, disarranged, in disarray, deranged; untidy, cluttered, messy, disheveled, Inf. mussed up, messed up, ruffled up, rumpled, tousled, Chiefly Scot. Dial, toused; unkempt, slovenly, sloppy, shoddy, careless, slip-shod, poor.
2. unorganized, disorganized, unmethodical, unsystematic; irregular, indiscriminate, haphazard, random, aimless, pell-mell, helter-skelter.
3. unruly, undisciplined, disobedient, misbehaving; unmanageable, uncontrollable, ungovernable, intractable; rebellious, mutinous, lawless; violent, wild, unrestrained, rough, rough-and-tumble, rowdy, rowdy-ish, boisterous, noisy; tumultuous, riotous, uproarious, turbulent; distraught, upset, disturbed, turbid, perturbed, agitated, worked up, wrought up, Inf. in a stew.
disorganization, n. 1. disunion, disruption; dishevelment, disarray, derangement, disarrangement, misarrangement; unconnectedness, disjointedness, incoherence.
2. disorder, chaos, confusion, tohubohu; anarchy, lawlessness, disorderliness, unruliness, turmoil; mess, scramble, tumble, muddle, morass, snafu, Inf. mix-up, Sl. screw-up.
disorganize, v. disorder, derange, disarrage, misar-range; confuse, muddle, jumble, put out of order, throw into confusion Inf. disorder, mix up, Inf. raise hell with, disarray, dishevel, Inf. mess up, Inf. make a mess of, make a shambles of.